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Ishy

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Registered: 2024-04-08

Posts: 5

Audio output randomly changes.

Hi, recently my audio output started randomly changing. There is no pattern to it and it seems to happen randomly but it happens more often when I raise my maximum volume. 
The only "fix" I found is to disable all other outputs but then it tries switching to the same output which mutes my audio for a second, displays an annoying pop-up that says "Built-in analog stereo" and if I have raised maximum volume then it resets it back to 100% even though it still says 120%.
I tried looking for a solution but couldn't find one.

Last edited by Ishy (2024-04-15 17:39:58)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,811

Re: Audio output randomly changes.

Is it tied to a system update? Likely the udevadm trigger, create the file /etc/systemd/do-not-udevadm-trigger-on-update to mitigate that.

If it's literally random, make sure your speakers are properly plugged in so that there are no spurious jack events.

Ishy

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Registered: 2024-04-08

Posts: 5

Re: Audio output randomly changes.

Is it tied to a system update? Likely the udevadm trigger, create the file /etc/systemd/do-not-udevadm-trigger-on-update to mitigate that.

If it's literally random, make sure your speakers are properly plugged in so that there are no spurious jack events.

What do you mean by "Is it tied to a system update?"
Do you mean that a system update caused it?
Also my speakers are properly plugged in and i also tried different ports.

Ishy

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Registered: 2024-04-08

Posts: 5

Re: Audio output randomly changes.

So i found out that after running "journalctl -f" when the Built-in analog stereo" popup appeared i got

kdeconnectd[1089]: 2024-04-26T16:07:37 org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.6"
kdeconnectd[1089]: 2024-04-26T16:07:37 org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "@DEFAULT_SINK@"
kdeconnectd[1089]: 2024-04-26T16:07:37 org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "@DEFAULT_SINK@"
kdeconnectd[1089]: 2024-04-26T16:07:37 org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.7"
kdeconnectd[1089]: 2024-04-26T16:07:37 org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "@DEFAULT_SINK@"
kdeconnectd[1089]: 2024-04-26T16:07:37 org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "@DEFAULT_SINK@"

And it also started happening on fedora but only after around 2 days from downloading it.